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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jubilant Chen Yi exchanged congratulatory telegrams with his Communist brother-in-arms, one-eyed General Liu Po-cheng. The two Red leaders agreed to join forces and carve out a "liberated" Central China state like the "North China Liberated Area" set up six weeks ago...
Three years ago, the U.N. charter was signed at San Francisco. During ceremonies commemorating that all but forgotten anniversary, U.S. wartime Censor Byron Price said last week: "The United Nations has not become what it was intended to be. [It] cannot endure half success and half failure...
Irgunist Beigin had embraced the philosophy of violence years ago as a law student in Poland, there had joined the youth organization of the Zionist Revisionists. In World War II the Russians arrested him as an "antisocial element" in Poland, exiled him to hard labor in Siberia, later released him to join the Polish army. When his unit reached Palestine, Beigin deserted and went underground with the Irgun. The British put a price of ?2,000 on his head...
Canada's policy towards her Indians was laid down 68 years ago. It was a simple policy: shove them off on reservations as wards of the government. As dutiful a guardian as its neighbor to the south, the government fed & clothed its wards and looked after their health. But the red men remained a race apart, with the rights of second-class citizens...
...years ago, the orthodox Sommerfield group in the Red River Valley area decided that the time had come to move. Small groups in Saskatchewan and British Columbia joined them. They auctioned off their lands and farm equipment to other Mennonites. They advertised for creditors they might have overlooked, checked with the Income Tax Department on back taxes they might still owe. Then they packed...